Murder by Contract (1958)
1958 · Feature film · 81 min · dir. Irving Lerner
Double rates for women... because a woman is always double-trouble!
- Drama
- Crime
- film noir
Synopsis
Murder by Contract is a 1958 American film noir crime film directed by Irving Lerner. Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Ben Maddow did uncredited work on the film. Centering on an existentialist hit man assigned to kill a woman, the film is often praised for its spare style and peculiar sense of cool.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Irving Lerner
- Writer
- Ben Simcoe
- Composer
- Perry Botkin Sr.
- Cinematography
- Lucien Ballard
- Studio
- Orbit Productions, Columbia Pictures
- Released
- 1958-12-18
- Running time
- 81 minutes
Cast & crew
Irving Lerner Director
Phillip Pine
Vince Edwards
Kathie Browne
Janet Brandt
Herschel Bernardi
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Is worth viewing · testeronline · 2022-08-03
Taking in account means of making a movie in that years is even a good one. The end would be better let not so neat finished (tie scene would have done the job) but I suppose that then always had to have bad guys punished.
★★★★ · Ben Casey COOF Killer · The Spanman · 2022-08-25
Vince Edwards was always a great guy to watch. If he could have merged his assassin’s role into his famous TV doctor persona, you had the prototypical Tony Fauci right in front of you. Fauci played a miniaturized version of Vince in real life, but the genocidal maniac was pre-programmed for all to see! A scalpel is switched to a vaccine and it goes from a few selective rub-outs to a global amazzare!
★★★ · Last of the great films noir · mailboy79 · 2025-02-10
This taut little B-movie is a joy. When a hit man fails to carry through with the execution of a star witness, he finds himself marked for murder.
